12:50 PM,
Apr. 21, 2013

Michael Fischer, a lifelong Nevada history buff, stands at the historic Dangberg Home Ranch in Carson Valley.

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Michael Fischer's fascination with history literally sprung from the soil in Nevada.

"When I was young, my mom would take me to dig bottles at old places all around the state," said the affable Fischer, a Reno native and longtime Carson Valley resident. "We'd find bottles that had (maker's) marks on them and you'd want to know about the bottles. So you'd look up the history, whether it was a Nevada bottle or one for consumption or something else. So it made me a researcher at a very young age because I wanted to know the history of these bottles."